John Timaeus

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IT/Cyber Instructor/Consultant.
ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1656159805
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John Timaeus1d ago
John Timaeus3d ago

If anyone's going to DAFITC next week in Montgomery, I'll be presenting Tuesday.

Come see what I've been brainholed in for the last year. And we can get some food/drink(s) after.

John Timaeus1d ago
arclight1d ago
OMFG, I own a piece of history.
John Timaeus1d ago
Matt Blaze1d ago
Walmart competes aggressively on price, but I never expected them to be the cheapest source for discount Cesium-137.
John Timaeus2d ago

I don't happen to have a contact at Idaho National Lab, do I?
I've got some questions about licensing decisions.

Edit:
Enquiring questions, not judgemental questions.

John Timaeus3d ago

If anyone's going to DAFITC next week in Montgomery, I'll be presenting Tuesday.

Come see what I've been brainholed in for the last year. And we can get some food/drink(s) after.

John Timaeus3d ago
The Little League World Series is running on the TVs at my local.
I just noticed they listed a team as "Chinese Taipei" instead of Taiwan.
Corporate America is so afraid.
John Timaeus4d ago
John Timaeus6d ago

Curiosity question:

Does anyone know of a cybersecurity company specializing in Agricultural OT?

John Timaeus4d ago
Numh
John Timaeus5d ago
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️5d ago
Meanwhile, it's an absolutely gorgeous day with temperatures in the low 80s and a cool breeze that is literally blowing right through my house because I have all the doors and windows open. I love getting fresh air through my home and today has been an amazing opportunity to do so. This, of course, is after two full weeks of high temperatures and humidity in Florida that left me wondering why anyone would want to live there.
John Timaeus5d ago
Allison Husain5d ago

Does anyone remember the site that had a comparison of all the Arm cores and the extensions they support? I have this hazy memory that someone made a little interactive page that listed the exact extensions supported by each core but I can't find it anymore.

Arm doesn't seem to publish machine readable TRMs and I very much do not want to have to go on a scraping adventure to recreate this :P

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Ricki Yasha TarrAug 12
This hit me like a ton of bricks:
Show threadWillow, Venus Pirate 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 12
@RickiTarr <Looks at her own history of writing> Fuck.
Show threadJoscelyn TranspiringAug 12

@Willow @RickiTarr hehe, just look at the piles of poetry I wrote as a sadboy and how much I struggle to write as a happygirl. 😅

I always point to Dante's Inferno vs. Dante's Paradiso. The Inferno is vivid, detailed, and deeply specific. The Paradiso famously ascends into vague symbol and metaphor. In a lot of religions and mythologies, it is similar, with detailed and specific punishments, but vague and abstract rewards that are hard to articulate.

Might also be the reason why so many stories are based on fantasies of what we don't have or as catharsis for what we struggle with. When we are happy and satisfied, we often want to be there with those things in the moment and not reading about something else.

Show threadMedea VanamondeAug 14
@JoscelynTransient @Willow @RickiTarr

Hey girl,
You keft out il Purgatorio.
The Transition from Sins to Slavations.

Remembering the first time i read il Paradiso and was “spiritually high” for a week at age 16.

But i only read it that once…while i turned to il Inferno on the regular all the way to graduation…that or the Niven/Pournelle modern retelling.

All around rhe Ciardi translation
Show threadGeoff CoffeyAug 12
@RickiTarr Hmm. I counter with Seneca: "Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent"
Show threadPistolenkindAug 12
@RickiTarr Yup. I am a Writer and i am at my best in melancholy. But ii am shit if i am happy.
Show threadMacCruiskeenAug 12
@RickiTarr coffee, chocolate.
Show threadOblomovAug 13
@maccruiskeen @RickiTarr now try saying or even writing that while eating chocolate and drinking coffee
Show threadMacCruiskeenAug 13
@oblomov @RickiTarr <grunt, moan, choke>
Show threadOblomovAug 13
@maccruiskeen @RickiTarr now THAT's the language of love
Show thread Stellar 🇫🇷  Aug 12
@RickiTarr i don't get it, i guess i'm safe from the ton of bricks ​​

until i get it ​​
Show thread*:･ﾟ💗GABRIELLE ROSEAug 12

@Stellar
My translation: man horny, only happy when having sex; 'grunts and moans'. Pointing to thing man 'has' like a partner he has current sexual access to, makes man happy ('you don't need a name for what you can point at') When man has breakup or loses access to sex, ('loss') man cannot point at sexual object, (maybe they left because of such caveman behaviour, who's to say) and has to use his brain for a change.

(This did not hit me like a ton of bricks lol)

Show thread Stellar 🇫🇷  Aug 12
@Shes_Gabrielle s-stop i can hear the bricks ​​
Show threadLisPiAug 13
@Stellar @Shes_Gabrielle It does reduce things to a purely sexual experience of happiness which is odd.

To me that suggests chronic depression (or other anomalies in emotional experience).

Also all those comments about bricks are reminding me of that Pink Floyd album.
Show threadAllan ChowAug 12
@RickiTarr hot dang
Show threadseibelsaysAug 12
@RickiTarr ....oh.
Show threadMarty FoutsAug 12

@RickiTarr Ogden Nash, Ted Geisel, (Dr Seuss) Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and a long list of others who wrote eloquently from places of joy and even invented words to express wonder and happiness would probably disagree with that assessment.

If we only invent words for things that are no longer there, why are there so many words for earth, and sky?

Show threadFish Id WardrobeAug 12
@MartyFouts @RickiTarr because we're scared of losing them.
Show threadMarty FoutsAug 12
@fishidwardrobe @RickiTarr 🙄
Show threadmonkeyflower jelly beanAug 12
@RickiTarr yeah I was thinking about this in the way we censor sex (or even love if it's queer) but don't do the same for violence. Like how does that change the worldview of people growing up in a culture?
Show threadCorvid CroneAug 12

@RickiTarr

Nah, this is bullshit. The tortured artist troupe is just an excuse to underpay artists.

Joy has many words.

Show threadFish Id WardrobeAug 12

@RickiTarr oh dear gods. truest thing I've seen for a long, long while.

edit: presumably this is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Siken

Richard Siken - Wikipedia

Show threadPalmAndNeedleAug 12

@RickiTarr << looks at my thousands and thousands of words in filthy text based roleplaying >>

I need quite a lot of these words to fill in around the grunts and moans 

Show threadOmega   Aug 12
@RickiTarr holy shit
Show threadTatteredAug 12
@RickiTarr There are studies of how narrative is related to healing. Dealing with accident and injury, physical or mental, involves putting the experiences into language, repeatedly.
Show threadJayAug 12

@RickiTarr “The vocabulary of joy is grunts and moans”.

When I gush and overshare about an interest, is that me expressing sexual pleasure? Do aces not experience joy? Has this man never once read a haiku about the beauty of nature, listened to someone croon a lullaby to their child, or stood in front of and just fucking looked at a painting that took months or years to make that is bursting with the artist’s wonder and awe?

He’s right that there is a failure of vocabulary here.

Show thread*:･ﾟ💗GABRIELLE ROSEAug 12
@WhiteCatTamer Exactly this, a perfect description. How terribly empty his life must be if that's his only joy.
Show threadJohn TimaeusAug 12

@RickiTarr

Ouch.

Show threadSassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽Aug 12

@RickiTarr

'Grunts and moans', lol.

Don't they have kids that jumps and shout and sing and run in circles and dance and giggle or laugh out loud like birds chirping and leaves chattering in the wind and snowflakes twinkling and

Show threadnellie-mAug 14

@Sassinake @RickiTarr
@knutson_brain

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”

George Bernard Shaw (attr.)

I suspect that as we stop cultivating feelings of joy, we also neglect cultivating our vocabulary for it.

So let’s go play with our kids. Let’s play with our dog today. Run and laugh and giggle. Find the joy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KanfLqKXYg

The Primal Power of Play

YouTube
Show threadHamish BuchananAug 13

@RickiTarr In photography it is sometimes said that we only document things when we are preparing for them to disappear, or as a defence against their disappearance.

Moments of joy are generally fleeting and hard to capture and share.

Balance, peace, dynamic equilibrium, practice? The best we can find between agony and ecstasy?

Show threadhadesAug 14
@RickiTarr "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." — Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"
Show threadaevaAug 14
@RickiTarr what about when it's just in the other room and you can't be bothered to get up
Show threadLowtideAug 15
@RickiTarr Words are not the real thing.
Show threadAda 🏳️‍⚧️6d ago
@RickiTarr it's accurate though. From my experience writing requires turning your thoughts into mush, and then turning that mush into the thought equivalent of banana bread in some capacity. You can't write without putting at least a little bit of your mind into your work. You're more aware of your thoughts when you're sad because that's when you think about how things should've gone, and what you feel bad about, and all that junk. You're existing less in reality and more in your mind.
Show threadAda 🏳️‍⚧️6d ago
@RickiTarr When you're happy you're letting yourself enjoy the moment. You don't need to think about why you're happy. You just enjoy the moment. You enjoy the moment while it's still there. You're existing more in reality and less in your mind. So it makes sense. How deep you are in your mindscapes determines how much thought bread you can make. Plus I know writing is basically just making shit up and hoping said shit is actually good. That post is literally this summed up very efficiently.